" You may keep your books as you like, but if they spoil everything for you, there won't be any profit.

" "Why do they spoil things? A poor thrashing machine, or your Russian presser, they will break, but my steam press they don't break.

A wretched Russian nag they'll ruin, but keep good dray-horses--they won't ruin them.

And so it is all round.

We must raise our farming to a higher level.